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The Soft American
10-02-2012, 02:18 PM
Quote: (10-02-2012 01:48 PM)Fisto Wrote:
Is this pretty much your plan Athlone?
What, to join this class and therefore avoid exposure to all of those issues?
That'd be nice, but I don't think I can. They don't suffer outsiders well.
I could go back to my home country (Jamaica) and join the equivalent 1%/upper class there, since my family is a part of it and I could find access via blood/connections if I played my cards right. That may be in the long term plans, but we'll see. Lots to consider there.
Quote: (10-02-2012 02:05 PM)Smitty Wrote:
Yeah, because of two words: self-discipline.
Major negative trends don't just hit the average joe. The average joe creates those trends through their own actions/inaction.
Not an invalid point. The average-joe, by virtue of being average, is naturally more susceptible to the more negative influences in our society. That's an unavoidable reality, unfortunately.
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The Soft American
10-04-2012, 12:50 PM
Quote: (10-02-2012 01:49 PM)Fisto Wrote:
Quote: (10-02-2012 01:48 PM)jammer Wrote:
35% to 1%? I'm calling BS on that unless they specifically tailored it to the Europeans. Americans consistently beat out the world at all age levels in competitions, yet they are being beat that overwhelming of a margin?
Our "best" owns the rest of the world, it's the rest of the country that's a bunch of pussies.
Thats still not a great explanation to explain such a disparity. There is no reason to believe that our tops are so much better than Europes, yet somehow the average American kid is so much worse than the average European. Its more likely due to the tests they conducted. I bet the average little league team or gymnastics team in the US beats out the average Austrian team. I doubt Austria is doing something so special that the average American kid is 71x more likely to fail a physical test than the average Austrian kid, yet somehow this doesn't translate to results at all in the Olympic level or the Junior competition level.
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10-04-2012, 01:40 PM
this a 7 year old american. how many pullups can he perform?
seriously, the whole sports-system is different in europe. we don't have high school/college teams and stuff like that, at least german sport is based on free "membership corporation" (idk if this is the correct translation). there is no connection between professional sports and school beneath high school level.
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The Soft American
08-02-2013, 08:25 AM
I took PE every semester in high school because I liked it. However, I don't think anyone worked all that hard during PE. Everyone basically just fucked around.
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The Soft American
08-02-2013, 08:49 AM
Quote: (08-02-2013 08:25 AM)RioNomad Wrote:
I took PE every semester in high school because I liked it. However, I don't think anyone worked all that hard during PE. Everyone basically just fucked around.
PE was useless in high school. It was ran by coaches that only cared for the football fags in there. Everyone else just fucked off, cause we were on our own. Waste of time.
PE is a liability for public schools. It's easier to cut it out altogether. Stupid people are breeding at an alarming rate, and I wouldn't want my kid surrounded by a bunch of undisciplined fucktards running around with baseball bats. Fitness of children falls on the parents, not the school system. Put them in an after school sports league and go be a part of it.
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The Soft American
08-02-2013, 09:50 AM
Its true, fucktards breed in litters it seems. Weekly I see some retard from my high school on Facebook giving birth to baby retards. Usually they have multiple children back to back. We need to go Spartan on them and throw those infant dipshits off of a cliff.
One girl I know already has one kid that was taken away from her. She just had another baby. No job. No education. Now her little brother, who is equally as useless, just had a kid. Neither of them are over 22 or 23. She's bound to shit out one or two more useless bastards before she hits 30.
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The Soft American
08-04-2013, 02:31 PM
Your average American today is stronger than a European.
Mangina syndrome is far stronger on continental Europe than in the USA (and Canada).
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The Soft American
08-04-2013, 02:37 PM
Quote: (08-04-2013 02:31 PM)DjembaDjemba Wrote:
Your average American today is stronger than a European.
Mangina syndrome is far stronger on continental Europe than in the USA (and Canada).
I need to stop making fun of our funny neighbors up north. DJDJ, Laner, and the rest of the Canuck crew are bringing some solid value to the forum. If you commie bastards would let me cross the border, I'd sponsor a big meetup later this year.
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The Soft American
08-04-2013, 02:56 PM
So I guess the Intel in the OP is completely wrong then.
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The Soft American
08-04-2013, 03:07 PM
Quote: (08-04-2013 02:56 PM)Vicious Wrote:
So I guess the Intel in the OP is completely wrong then.
I don't put a lot of stock in the writings of a man that got his brains blown out in broad daylight, with so many entities involved, the truth is still obscure.
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The Soft American
08-04-2013, 03:12 PM
Quote: (09-29-2012 04:19 PM)Laner Wrote:
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Especially disheartening were the results of the five strength tests: 35.7% of American children failed one or more of these, while only 1.1% of the Europeans failed, and among Austrian and Swiss youth the rate of failure was as low as .5%.
I call bullshit on JFK. He was manipulated by Kraus into declaring a national fitness crisis.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.10...f61ndL2aSo
By the time the children are 11 years of age the percentage of failure on any item is less than 8 per cent, and agrees very closely with the results found for European children.
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The Soft American
08-04-2013, 09:54 PM
I wonder what gym classes in school are like now days, if they even exist in most schools anymore.
When I was in 2nd grade at in Cincinnati's public schools, my favorite gym exercise consisted of climbing 30' long pipes hanging from our gym ceiling. We were graded based on how high we could climb, and the only safety gear we had was a 3"-4" thick mat on the gym floor. And this was in 1996 or so! I can't even imagine the liability issues this might entail now-a-days.
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The Soft American
08-04-2013, 10:52 PM
PE classes are being cut being budgets are getting cut. Same with art and music. They cut the non-necessary stuff aka the things that don't improve standardized scores.
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The Soft American
08-05-2013, 12:13 AM
JFK would turn in his grave if he knew how much worse things are now.
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The Soft American
08-05-2013, 06:12 AM
Quote: (10-02-2012 01:24 PM)Giovonny Wrote:
Americans are soft because their lives are soft.
This.
We've been too spoiled for too long. It's one of the reasons I left. A lot of the European socialist democracies are even softer though.
Politicians/governments in these 'democracies' have a hard time saying no after generations of quality of life improvements. Everyone in the US pretty much expects the world these days.
I thought this Onion news story was pretty funny and sadly there's way more than a kernel of truth in this:
http://www.theonion.com/articles/nation-...abl,33335/
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